Grate and fixtures therefor.



PATENTED JULY l0, 1906.

J. FERRAGIOLI.

GRATE AND FIXTURES THERBFOR.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.6. 1905.

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GRATE ANDTIXTURBS THEREFOR.

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JOHN FERRACIOLI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GRATE AND FIXTURES THEREFOR- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10, 1906.

Application filed October 6,1905. Serial No. 281,618.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN FERRACIOLI, citizen of the United States, and a resident o the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Grate and Fixtures Therefor, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to improvements in grates intended especially for use in cooking stoves or ranges and to certain improvements in the means for mounting the grate.

The object of the invention is to provide a grate which may be heavily constructed, so as to render it as durable as possible, but

l which may be made in sections, so that one or more of the sections may be removed when injured and replaced by new sections,

thus permitting ready repair.

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j the lock-plate It is also an object of my invention to mount the grate in the stove or range so that it may be conveniently removed for adjustment as aforesaid.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate, as an example, the referred embodiment of my invention, in w ich- Fi re 1 is a view showing the bottom of the e-boX and the front of the range or cook-stove in section and illustrating the grate in position. Fig. 2 is a front view of the stove, showing the shaft of the grate and and devices immediately coacting therewith. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of the grate with one of its sections removed. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section through the grate, and Fig. 5 is a cross-section.

10 indicates the metal bottom of the fireboX, which has the grate-opening 11 therein, as shown. Said opening is surrounded by anges 127 which project downward therefrom.

14 indicates the front of the stove, which has a draft and ash door 15 of the usual or any desired construction.

The shaft 16 of thegrate has at one end an annular groove 17, and this end of the shaft is rockably mounted in a keyhole-slot 18,

` the flange 12bhas a slot 19,

shaft passes formed in the flange 12, the grate lying in the opening 11, surrounded by the flange, as zshown in Fig. 1. Opposite the opening 18 through which the loosely. The front end of the' grate-shaft 16 projects beyond the front of the stove and is loosely arranged in an opening 2O in the front wall. The o enin 20 also receives a lock-plate 21, whic is aced in the lower part of the opening and ears under the shaft 16, so as to sustain the shaft in operative position. Said lock-plate has shoulders 22, which bear against corresponding shoulders 20, formed in the walls of the opening 20, preventing the displacement of the lock-plate.4 The lock-plate is further held in position by the door 15, engaging the lower part of the plate, as 'indicatec by the full and broken lines in Fig. 2. The end of the Grate-shaft 16, which projects outside of the ont wall 14, has a head or enlargement 22a with slots 23 therein, adapted to receive a lock-dog 24, which is hin ed to the outer side of the front wall 14, tius holding the grate in any desired position. The shaft is also provided with an eye 25, adapted, together with the slots 23, to' coact with the shaker-bar 26. (See Fig. l.) By this arrangement the grate is mounted securely in place, and yet it may be readily removed from the stove by withdrawing the lockplate 21. This allows the front end of the shaft to drop into the openings commanded by the door 15, the door being in open position. After the grate takes this inclined position the grooved end 17 of the shaft may be lifted out of the slot 18 and the entire grate withdrawn through the ash-door opening. T o facilitate this operation, the opening 20, receiving the lock-plate 21 and shaft 16, runs into and forms an extension of the ash-door opening. It will thus be seen that my invention provides for the easy removal of the Grate through the ash-opening at the front of the stove or range.

Formed integral with or securely fastened to the shaft 16 are the end sections 27 of the' These project transversely from the v TOO 'lock-rod .and

of the other section, though this is not essential. The frame or body 30 of the grate-sections has lugs 32 projecting inward `and seated in cavities 33, formed in the bars 29,Which are at the ends of the grate, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. Projecting inward from the gratesections are lugs .34, and these extend into openings 35, formed in the end bars 27 of the body of the grate. Said lugs 34 are orificed attheir inner ends and loosely receive in these orifices a lock-rod 35a. This rod is slidably iitted in the shaft 16 of the vgrate and extends from end to end thereof. Theeye 25 at the outer endof said shaft has a cavity which re- -fce'ives a ring or eye 36, formed on the end of .the lock-rod and by means of which said rod may be withdrawn. It will be seen, therefore, that either or both of the sections of the `grate may be removed and replaced, it being only necessary to withdraw the grate from the stove, as before explained, and then withdraw the rod 35a, this rod releasing the'top and bottom sections of the grate. The grate is mounted in the stove so that it can be reversed without removal. In this way when one side ofthe grate has become injured the grate may be reversed and thev other side used. Then if both sides are injured the grate Vmay be removed from the stove, the lock-rod 35a Withdrawn, and new sections 30 applied, these sections being secured by the the grate again returned to its place.

Having thus described the preferred form of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a stove the c ,stove-front and Ere-box bottom, the front having an ash-door opening and anextensi on- Vopening above the same, and the fire-box bottom having .an opening therein, of .a grate arranged in the opening in said lire-box bottom, a grate-shaft, means for mounting the inner end of the grate-shaft, the outer end of the grate-shaft extending into the vextensionopening in the front wall ofthe stove, a removable lock member secured in the exten- 'sion-opening below the grate-shaft to hold the same in place, and an ash-door mounted -on the front of the stove and adapted to 7close in front of said lock member to hold the same in place.

2. In a stove, the combination with the stove-y ont and lire-box bottom, the front having an ash-door opening and an extension-opening above the same, and the lirebox bottom having an opening the ein, of a j grate arranged in the opening in sai fire-box bottom, va grate-shaft, means for mountinor the Iinner endof the grate-shaft, the outer end of the grate-shaft extending into the extension-opening in the front wall of the stove, a removable lock-plate secured in the extension-opening below the grate-shaft to hold the same in place, and an ash-door mounted on ombination with the the front of the stove and adapted to close in front of the lock-plate to hold the same in position. i

3. A stove having a front wall with an ashopening, and an extension-opening above and communicating with the ash-opening, a grate, agrate-shaft located in the 'extensionopening, and a removable lock member engaged in the lower part of the extensionopening and bearing against the grate-shaft to hold the same in position, whereby upon the removal of said lock member the shaft and grate may be withdrawn through the ash-opening'and an ash-door mounted on the front of the stove .and `adapted to close against said lock member to hold it in place.

4. A grate having a therein, a lock-rod removably arranged to move in the grate and extending .across the opening, and grate-sections adapted to lengage opposite ksides of the body and having lugs ada ted to enter the opening 1and to be engagedv y said rod.

5. A grate having a body, a grate-shaft Jengaged therewith, said shaft having a longitudinal opening, and the body having an opening intersected by the opening of the shaft,

body with an opening l removable grate-sections engaged with opposite sides o the body and -a'ving lngs projected into the opening thereof, and la lockrod movable through the opening in the shaft and engaging the lugs.

6. A grate having a rectangular body, vertically-extending bars secured 'to the sides thereof, top and bottom grate sections adapted to engage said bars, and means for removably holding said bars in place.

7. Agrate having a rectangular body, vertically-extending bars secured to the .sid-es thereof, top and bottom .grate-sections adap-ted to en age `said bars, and means for removably holding said bars in place, said means comprising orificed lu s on the gratesections, and a lock-rod slidaly arranged in jzhe grate and engaged in the openings i-n said g8. In a stove, the combination with the frontv thereof, having an ash-door openin and an extension-opening above thesame, o a grate, means for mounting the inner end thereof, a grate-shaft projecting from the front of the rate through said extensionopenin a loc r member setting in the opening un er the grate-shaft to sustain the same, and an ash-door mounted Ion the front of the stove and ada member to hov d it in place.

9. A grate comprising .a body., bottom sections adapted to bear body and havin inwardly-` rojecting portions, and a slidgmg lock-ro' Vfitting 1n the grate and engaging said projecting portions.

lO. A grate having a body, comprising an essentially rectangular frame with vertically extending bars at the sides thereof, essenflat top and against the IOO IIO

l longitudinal passage therein, and a sliding gaging respectively the ends of said bars and l lock-rod iitting in the passage and in the having inwardly-projecting portions, and a l body of the grate, and engaging said insliding lock-rod fitting in the grate and enl Wardly-projeeting parts of the top and botgaging said projecting ortions. torn @rate-sections, said grate-shaft having 11. A grate having a ody, top and bottom an enlarged end With an eye therein, and the sections engaging the sanie and having inlook-rod having an eye iitting in a cavity in wardly-projecting parts, a grate-shaft with a the said end oi the grate-shaft and registerlongitudinal passage therein, and a sliding y inv With the eye thereof. lock-rod iitting in the passage and in the n testimony whereof l have signed Iny tially iiat top and bottom grate-sections enbody of the grate, and engaging said innaine to this specification in the presence of Wardly-projeoting parts of the top and bottwo subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN FERRACIOLI.

tom grate-sections.

12. A grate having a body, top and bottom sections engaging the saine and having inwardly-projecting parts, a grate-shaft with a Vitnesses:

ISAAC B. OWENs, JNO. M. RITTER. 

